Word: medinae
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...think that all Americans must share in Lieutenant Calley's guilt," Capt. Ernest L. Medina said yesterday, "I wonder how many people in the State Department and generals in the Army got a good night's sleep last night...
...Medina held a press conference yesterday in the Boston office of his civilian attorney, F. Lee Bailey. He discussed Monday's conviction of William L. Calley Jr., on 22 counts of murdering Vietnamese civilians at My Lai on March 16, 1968. The jury in Calley's case is now considering a possible death sentence...
...Calley's superior officer at the time, Medina faces trial for responsibility in the deaths of 100 villagers, and for two specific murders. Medina said yesterday that he was innocent of the charges because he had neither given nor received orders to have the inhabitants of My Lai killed. Medina also denied having participated in attempts to conceal the My Lai massacre...
During the trial Calley admitted firing into a drainage ditch filled with Vietnamese captives but insisted that everything he did at My Lai on the morning of March 16, 1968, was under the orders of his company commander, Captain Ernest Medina. Medina is currently awaiting court-martial on similar charges at Ft. McPherson...
...standard procedure, he said, was to sweep through such a village and herd its inhabitants into an open space on the far side. When he learned how many innocent civilians had been killed, said Medina, his reaction was, "Oh my God, what is ... What has happened?" Now the six-man jury of officers, who will begin their deliberations this week, must decide whether Calley or Medina was lying...